National Police Memorial

In 1984, following the shooting of Yvonne Fletcher, film director Michael Winner founded the Police Memorial Trust. Initially the trust concentrated on erecting smaller monuments at the points where officers had died on duty. From the mid-1990s, the trust also lobbied and raised funds for a single, larger scale memorial to commemorate all police officers who had died in the course of their duties. Winner stated that "Memorials to soldiers, sailors and airmen are commonplace, but the police fight a war with no beginning and no end". Winner donated £500,000 of his own money to the campaign for a national memorial. The remainder of the total cost of £2.3million was met by a public collection.

The memorial was built to a design by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Danish designer Per Arnoldi, on the corner of The Mall and Horse Guards Road, directly outside the Old Admiralty Building. The site was occupied at the time by an air shaft on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground. A guard of honour was provided by 56 officers wearing the uniforms of each of the UK's police forces. Despite concerns over the potential cost, construction of the memorial eventually came in at £400,000 under budget, in part because a number of the contractors concerned carried out their work free of charge. The memorial was a winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects award for 2006.